The “Heart” in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Negotiating between the Problem of Hypocrisy and Conflict within the Human Being

Abstract

This chapter provides a brief survey of in Dead Sea Scrolls and gives a brief consideration of use of this term in relation to both biblical tradition and evolved usage in later texts. It examines several texts which refer to activity with a double heart. Exploring this motif, chapter also gives a better position to understand how the heart functions in two contemporary, yet very different, modes of discourse and to see what this means for theological anthropologies adopted by writers of texts. The chapter also examines degree to which such transformation may or may not be observed in relation to two motifs of first list. In such an examination, significance of examining Scrolls within broader streams of tradition during Second Temple period becomes apparent. Keywords:biblical tradition; Dead Sea Scrolls; double heart; Second Temple